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Re: Are there any covers that you prefer over the original?

All the ones I can think of atm...

I Will Always Love You originally by Dolly Parton, Whitney Houston's version is supreme.
Hurt originally by Nine Inch Nails, Johnny Cash's version is better.
Heaven originally by Brian Adams, DJ Sammy's song is better.
Black Magic Woman was originally by Fleetwood Mac (shocking I know), but Santana's version is the standard.
Whiskey in the Jar is not a Metallica song, I know Thin Lizzy covered it but they were not the original group either.

Re: Are there any covers that you prefer over the original?

Originally Posted by maxpowr9

I Will Always Love You originally by Dolly Parton, Whitney Houston's version is supreme..

Man I wanted to mention that one but you beat me to it....LOL...Queen Dolly's original version is great, Linda Ronstadt's cover is Good but Whitney's unique vocals just took the song to another level & place....

When Dolly learned of Whitney's death she said she will Always Love Whitney and she acknowledges her in Concert...Dolly is forever the Classy Icon...

Another Classic I have to add to the list is Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't make you Love me"..So many people have TRIED to reproduce Bonnie's Magic...Many have come close but none have made it their own....This does not fall under the topic of this thread but I'm just saying the Truth...Prince covered the song and it was good but he didnt make it better....Bonnie owns that Classic....

Re: Are there any covers that you prefer over the original?

Lisa Edwards - "Cry" (original by Godley And Creme)

Marcia Hines - "You" (original by Rita Coolidge)
Marcia (again) - "Fire And Rain" (original by James Taylor)
Marcia (a third time!) - "What I Did For Love" (originally from A Chorus Line)
Marcia (still going!) - "I Just Don't Know What To Do With Myself" (original by Dusty Springfield)
(as much as I adore and worship Dusty, I must admit Marcia's version just has a little something extra)

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Re: Are there any covers that you prefer over the original?

Re: Are there any covers that you prefer over the original?

My absolute favourite cover is The Gun's version of Word Up, a raunchy hard-rock cover of the original early 80s funk song by Cameo.

I also rather enjoyed the interpretation of Simon and Garfunkel's Mrs Robinson by The Lemonheads, Siouxsie and the Banshees reimagination of Iggy Pop's gloomy The Passenger, and The Smashing Pumkins' brilliant reworking of the Stevie Nicks classic, Landslide. And my old band did a beautiful job on the old Queen classic Under Pressure featuring David Bowie; admittedly, though, we were doing the Tusnami Aid version recorded by My Chemical Romance and The Used which was fantastic to start with.

And lastly, Pearl Jam have done a number of excellent live covers as part of their concerts - typically The Who and Neil Young material, but also a lovely version of Dock of the Bay. But I'll quite happily listen to any rendition of them doing Baba o'Riley (aka, the theme from CSI: New York).

Covers I can't abide are numerous - Sheryl Crow fucked up Sweet Child o' Mine; the All Saints massacred Under the Bridge, and U2 absolutely raped All Along the Watchtower. For a band of their caliber, that cover was shocking.

Re: Are there any covers that you prefer over the original?

I like "Boys of Summer" by the Ataris much better than the original by Don Henley.

Dolly Parton's bluegrass version of "Heaven Let Your Light Shine Down" is way better than Collective Souls version. Dolly has actually made quite a few bluegrass covers of rock songs that I prefer.

The Ataris did a good job on that track.

However... Shine is made entirely by the unabated and shameless fury of the epic, balls-to-the-wall screamer of a solo by Collective Soul's brilliant and underrated former guitarist Ross Childress, which lifts the song from merely above-average way up into the echelons of epic. I have had the good fortune to see that same piece performed live prior to his leaving the band; in my not-at-all humble opinion, the song is nothing without the solo (in much the same way as the ghastly covers I mentioned earlier were ruined by their lack of interest and innovation on the part of the covering guitarists).

I will have to find this Dolly version and give it a listen and hope to be pleasantly surprised.

Re: Are there any covers that you prefer over the original?

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Re: Are there any covers that you prefer over the original?

I have a passion for cross-genre covers... hip-hop covers of Broadway, rock covers of pop, disco covers of classical... and I have a tendency to prefer newer versions of older songs, just because the sound is more developed. Here are some favorites that come immediately to mind:

Re: Are there any covers that you prefer over the original?

I am so in love with this woman.....Bettye LaVette....her cover of The Who's Love Reign O'er Me is brilliant. It's funny because back in the 70s she did some other covers I loved too...I have them on vinyl but they are hard to find and not on You Tube.